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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Which is more prestigious for economics?[/quote]

Of course GMU:

GMU List 
Notable faculty and alumni[edit] 
See also: List of George Mason University people 
Faculty[edit]

James M. Buchanan, Nobel Prize-winning economist

Vernon L. Smith, Nobel Prize-winning economist

Gordon Tullock, developed public choice theory 
James M. Buchanan, 1986 Nobel Prize winner for Economics 
Tyler Cowen, economist, director of the Mercatus Center at Mason and founder of the blog Marginal Revolution 
Jack Goldstone, sociologist and political scientist specializing in revolutions; nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution; 2014 winner of Guggenheim Award 
Brian Krebs, investigative journalist for the Washington Post and founder of KrebsOnSecurity.com 
Steven Pearlstein, Pulitzer Prize winner for economics in the Washington Post 
Roy Rosenzweig, Fulbright scholar, historian, founded Center for History and New Media 
Martin Sherwin, Pulitzer Prize winner for his biography of Robert Oppenheimer 
Vernon L. Smith, 2002 Nobel Prize-winning economist. 
Louise Shelley, 2015 Andrew Carnegie Fellow from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. 
Gordon Tullock, a founder of the public choice theory of economics and politics. 
Alumni[edit] 
Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, President of Puntland and Prime Minister of Somalia 
Anousheh Ansari, Iranian-American engineer, co-founder of Prodea Systems and the first Muslim woman in space 
Justin Bour, Professional Baseball Player with Miami Marlins 
Anna E. Cabral, Treasurer of the United States under President George W. Bush 
Shawn Camp, baseball player, Toronto Blue Jays 
Kathleen L. Casey, Commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission 
Erden Eruç president and CEO of the non-profit Around-n-Over and the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the globe 
Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda, Poet Laureate of Virginia 
Hala Gorani, CNN International anchor 
David Jolly, Member of the United States House of Representatives 
Dayton Moore, general manager, senior VP of the Kansas City Royals 
Steve Ricchetti, former Deputy Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton 
Martin Andrew Taylor, former senior executive Corporate VP of Windows Live and MSN, Chief of Staff to Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer 
Alan Webb, American record holder in the mile

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Huh.  I worked for Gordon Tullock in the mid-90s when he was an econ professor at the University of Arizona.  That is one name I NEVER thought I'd see on DCUM![/quote]

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